The preparations for the new stage of the U.S.-Russia Cold War in S. Europe On April 21, 2016, under the cover of darkness, a U.S. military plane landed on Sarajevo international airport.[1] The mysterious guest was greeted by Osman Mehmedagić, the chief of the Bosnian intelligence agency – the Intelligence-Security Agency (OSA).[2] Mehmedagić was appointed […]

The Chinese support will be decisive if Türk is to prevail over the intelligence networks backing Bokova Seventy years ago, the organization of United Nations was officially founded in San Francisco, the city I live in at this time. A few days ago, I went to see the mural commemorating this event in the city’s […]

The New York Times throws its weight behind those whose global code of conduct is nothing else but the expression of the war-mongering slogan “might makes right.” On December 2, 2015, the foreign ministers of NATO member states, including the U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, meeting at the NATO Headquarters in Brussels, agreed to […]

The U.S.-NATO Diplomatic Offensive in the Balkans The recent visits of NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg to Belgrade and U.S. Vice-President Joe Biden to Zagreb within a week of each other show that both the U.S. and NATO are in the process of trying to augment their influence in the Balkans. For more than a […]

What if the EU is no more? The ongoing Greek crisis has shown that not only the Eurozone, but also the European Union itself, is constructed on very fragile institutional foundations. It has shown that, in the long run, a monetary union without the federative political arrangement is not sustainable. Without the precisely delineated rules, […]

The NATO’s Balkan expansion project has come to a standstill Since its independence in 2006, Montenegro is being pushed into NATO membership by its corrupt ruling elite. The key political figures in this geopolitical and ideological project have been a long-time prime minister Milo Djukanović and the speaker of the Montenegrin Parliament Ranko Krivokapić. In […]

“We will not recognize any nation having a sphere of influence.” —- Joe Biden, 2009 The above quote is taken from the speech the US vice-president Joe Biden delivered at the 45th Munich Security Forum held in February 2009.[1] At the same time, Biden also promised that the newly-elected Obama administration would close the “detention […]

Victoria Nuland, the Balkans & the two-fold Cold War agenda of keeping the US-NATO Empire in With regard to the production of geopolitical discourses, the field of critical geopolitics distinguishes between the “intellectuals of statecraft” and the “dissident intellectuals”. The intellectuals of statecraft are those whose activities are directed toward the extending and deepening the […]

The US-NATO Control of the Balkan Ruling Elites Recently, the president of the Czech Republic Milos Zeman made news around the world when he publicly confronted the US ambassador to the Czech Republic Andrew Schapiro about the ambassador’s statement that Zeman’s attendance of the Victory Day parade in Moscow would be “awkward”. “I can’t imagine […]

The interlinking of politics and sports goes a long way back in human history. However, whereas in the ancient days, all wars stopped during the Olympic Games, there has been a trend recently to start major wars precisely at that time. The Georgian attack on South Ossetia on the opening day of the Beijing Summer […]

Can one really be surprised that Turner was chosen to be the president of the NATO Parliamentary Assembly? Mike Turner is a Republican member of the US House of Representatives from Ohio’s 10th District based in Dayton. He was first elected in 2003. The Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), a non-profit organization […]

The US-NATO Empire is trying to shift the blame for the ensuing political & economic crises on the ultimate “fall country”- Russia Though seemingly spontaneous, it is likely that the US Secretary of State John Kerry knew that several sentences he said during the hearing of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and […]

Biden’s imperial blessings of his Balkan interlocutors to enforce the neoliberal, militarist dogma against their own people’s interests The 51st Munich Security Conference, the erstwhile gathering of the Cold Warriors, took place from February 6 to February 8, 2015. This year’s conference was probably the most politically contentious in the living memory. The participants witnessed […]

When Djukanovic gets thrown out, and that day is inexorably coming, where will he go? The US political and economic oligarchy has had a long history of using the corrupt rulers of puppet states to do its bidding throughout the world. One of the ways that these rulers perform the services useful for the US […]

The genie of political anti-imperialist rebellion in Europe is out of the bottle & cannot be repressed Last month I wrote a BFP exclusive report on the upcoming presidential elections in Croatia and Greece. I claimed that in each of these elections there were political candidates and options taking a clear stand of resistance to […]